Belaja Gora (Sacha)
Urban-type settlement
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Belaja Gora ( Russian Бе́лая Гора́ ; Yakut Үрүҥ хайа ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia with 2245 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 1050 km as the crow flies northeast of the republic capital Yakutsk in the Abyj lowlands on the right bank of the Indigirka , about 20 km below the confluence of the left tributary Ujandina .
Belaja Gora is the administrative center of the Ulus Abyjski . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Belaya Gora.
history
The place was founded in 1974 as a new Rajon administrative center - in place of the 50 km southwest on the left Indigirka bank and subsequently abandoned - settlement Druzhina. It received urban-type settlement status in 1975. The Russian and Yakut names of the settlement stand for white mountain.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1979 | 1955 |
1989 | 3517 |
2002 | 2463 |
2010 | 2245 |
Note: census data
traffic
Belaja Gora is not connected to the fixed road network. It is located on a winter slope following the Indigirka downhill, which partly runs on the ice of the river from Ust-Nera via Chonuu to Tschokurdach . Another slope in a westerly direction up the Ujandina and into the mining settlement Deputatski is no longer maintained.
Belaja Gora Airport ( IATA airport code BGN , ICAO code UESG ) is located northeast of Balaja Gora on the Indigrka bank .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)